European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 12, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. April 12. 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 tobacco heir Selling anti smoking kit. Do everything i can to help people Stop Chicago a Patrick Reynold grandson of tobacco magnate . Rey nolds. 1m developed and a wiling a be Havior modification kit to help people kick the habit. Reynold Laid in an interview thai he has Sci up Headquarters in Chita go for Hii business the Reynolds Slop smoking program which Sells Kin bearing the same name. The kit. Being Tecsi Mark died in 20 Cit ies contains audio cassettes a Workbook and a 30-Day Supply of Beta carotene a naturally occurring Nui Riih that some studies have suggested Runny reduce lung cancer risk. The kit is just inc latest Effort by Rey nolds m. Who has become an increasingly Active Ami smoking campaigner since he gave up cigarettes four years ago. He has promoted his message in television Lalk Shaw appearances letters to the president and in congressional testimony. His efforts attracted the attention of he world health organization which honoured Reynolds at a Washington Cere Mony Friday along with other activists including Victoria Brynner daughter of lung cancer victim Vul Brynner. Actor Larry Hagman and former preside Tcarter. Reynold motive is a personal one. My Grandfather re. Reynolds helped popularize smoking in America and i want to do everything i can now that we know How dangerous it is to help people Stop he said. Reynolds said his Only memories of his father . Reynolds jr., Are of a Man lying Down gasping Tor  he died of emphysema at 38caused by his cigarette habit when i was though Reynolds took up smoking four years later for the usual reasons wanting Loai Iracy older girls and so on he slopped in 1984 and became increasingly disturbed about what was going on 1 and 1 found that cigarettes for example were the most heavily advertised products in All of America. Tobacco companies were spend ing Over $2 billion a year advertising cigarettes. That amounts to is a year for every Man woman and child in this country believing cigarette companies target their ads at the Young Reynolds testified in 1986 before Congress in favor of a ban on All cigarette advertising. He said he also has pushed for raising cigarette lanes Banning smoking on air planes and enacting Tough clean indoor air Laws and has endorsed a project to support product liability lawsuits against tobacco companies. Calls to the tobacco Institute in Washington for comment on sunday were not answered. The tobacco Industry claims that no link Between smoking and disease has Ever been proven. Reynolds activities have drawn criticism for bin his siblings who have claimed his Campaign is a publicity stunt. The tobacco heir has Jusi completed a Book about his family due out next year with the tentative title the gilded Leaf three generations of the re. Reynolds tobacco company and  but Reynolds said he hat Given up his acting career which included a number of television appearances and the Lead role in the science fiction movie eliminators to devote All of his time to anti smoking activities he said he has sold about 1 1,000 of his behaviour modification kits at ji9.bb each since he began marketing hem last christinas. He also plans to Market he kits to corporations and hospitals. He said he plans to donate a substantial portion of the profit from the kits to inc american lung association Ameri can cancer society and other anti smok ing groups. He Man inherited 2.5 million from his Grandfather when he turned 21 but later sold his Stock in Rwjr Nabisco inc., the conglomerate that runs the family tobacco company. Reynolds serves As a roving ambassador for the american lung spokeswoman Elaine Chap Niclot said Sun Bui she said Reynolds stun smoking kit has not been evaluated by the association which Sells its own kit containing a videotape audiotape and Workbook for 159,95 through local lung associations police Advance drug Rad As to gets into the act Charles town . A police investigating a suspected drug ring operating Al a Rural shopping mall say they were forced to stage a raid weeks earlier than planned because the Abc television network refused to hold off broadcasting Pic Tures of crack sales. However Abc said police volunteered to move up the Date of inc raid. When inc raid got under Way saturday one under cover West Virginia state police officer was shot in the fool while trying to subdue a suspect and two troopers were injured when their car crashed. . Attorney William Kolibash said the raid at the Hilldale shopping Center in Jefferson county focused on runners peddling track made from co Caine shipped in from Miami and Washington by jamaican dealers. He called the suspected drug ring a very blatant Street operation and said the suspects were using the Rural county to Cater to out of Lown buyers who did t want to have to worry about Lii dangers of City crime. Approximately 60 stale and Federal agents began serving arrest warrants saturday a Lemoon on 40 people accused of distributing crack. By saturday night. 26 people were in custody. Authorities continued to search for other suspects sunday but by eve Ning they reported no further arrests most of those apprehended were runners who acted As go Between for the dealers and buyers Kolibash said. Relatively Tittle track was confiscated during the raid he said. We knew ahead of time that is All we could get he said. We were a Little frustrated we could not make an inroad into the source people. They were too secretive. They Only dealt with people they knew,1 the dispute Over the timing of a television show complicated things further Kolbash said. After a Magazine ran an article on the jamaican drug connection in Jefferson county an Abc news television Crew arrived to film the open Selling of crack. Kolibash said he offered to let the reporter film from unmarked police vehicles but also asked that the footage not be broadcast until after the suspects were arrested. We. Were kind of concerned that if some of those a Cople saw themselves on television they would Dis appear Kolibash said. Abc news officials refused to hold off and scheduled the tape to be broadcast sunday night Kolibash said. Therefore the raid was held saturday several weeks ahead of Lime he said. Only about half a minute of inc hour Long television documentary drugs a plague upon the land dealt with Charles town. Abc news spokeswoman Joyce Gravili in new York denied that the network was responsible for speeding up the arrests saying the police offered to move the Date up. They volunteered to do that she said. It was i anything we asked for the show had several seconds of footage from the mall parking lot which it described As an open air drug  it also quoted a local resident As say ing the town was being occupied by drug dealers. They re not residents but they own More of the town than we do said the Man whom inc she did not identify. Kolibash said after watching the show that the alleged drug dealers probably would t have been influenced much by it. These people were so blah int i hat they probably would have been Hack out there within a week Kolibash said. 1,969 pounds of Coke seized Mcallen Tunas up . Customs agents and state authorities seized 1,969 pounds of cocaine Worth More than s3j5 million and arrested a truck Driver hauling the drug an offi Cial said. The cocaine packaged in irregular shaped baits wrapped in plastic was found sunday in the rear of a tractor trailer Rig slopped Abnusi 4 . On . 281 North of Mcallen customs spokesman Charles Conroy said in Houston. He said the seizure was one of the largest of its kind in the South Western United slates. Mike Cox. A spokesman for the Texas department of Public safety said the Street value of the drug was $335.2 million. Guadalupe Garza. 28, the Driver of the truck is being held in the Brooks county jail on a charge of aggravated Possession of cocaine said chief Dep Uty Juan Molina. Bond was set at it million. Strong evidence Zuccoro so a drugs caused prosecutor to reject Leo bid Rutland it. A a prow cuter says he refused to reduce a felony charge against John a Vecaro or. Because there was plenty of evidence Fiat fit son of former vice  candidate Ger Aldine Ferraro was Selling  said she and her candidacy were partly to blame for her son s conviction saturday but blasted Addison county slate s attorney John Quinn for failing to Ai Lvpl a plea bargain. Quinn said he was reluctant because of the problem of drugs in society. I recently prosecuted a Guy on a Fco  charge for j7 marijuana plants. Per haps in some counties they might have reduced thai. Hut As time goes on 1 feel More strongly about drug cases Quinn said sunday. "1 just think it s becoming More of a problem in the country and we need 10 deter  Zaccaro. 24, was convicted of telling one Quarter Gram of cocaine loan under cover officer at i off Campus apart ment on feb. 20, 1936, i ? was a senior at midd Bury College at the time. No sentencing Date has been Sci. The felony conviction carries a maximum sentence of five years in jail and a j 10,000 Fine. At a news conference Aller the verdict ferrite said the family would Appeal to the Vermont supreme court. We still believe he was set up she said. Ferraro blamed her son for in cession of cocaine As Well As herself and my Candi Dacy for making my son a target she we he democratic vice twi i Nival nominee in 19h4. But she said Quinn prolonged the agony for two years by not allowing Zac Caro to plead to a lesser count of cocaine Possession. We As his parents Mould not allow him to plead guilty to the felony charge of Selling cocaine Ferraro said. To me it was clearly a idling Ratt said Quinn who said the family tint approached him about a plea agreement at Zac Conj s arraignment. There was plenty of Evi Dence he was Selling. I never considered a Possession Cassand they know  he added. If she wants to be angry at me for not reducing the charge that s her prerogative. I did t feel there was any justification for reducing the  Zaccara s defense lawyer Charles Tetzlaff had Arjil that his client was entrapped by a Young inexperienced at Tractive female undercover police officer. This is a Case of improper and Over zealous police conduct he told jurors. But Quinn called Zaccaro a Well organized drug dealer and said he a known on Campus As the pharmacist because of his reputation As a dealer. Most Middlebury students questioned about the Case said the outcome did not concern Ihram. My Sophomore year ii we More interesting. But now half the people on Campus weren t even  said Bob Wohne a senior from Palm Island Fla